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UPDATE August 2012: Please note the date on this blog post—it’s from 2010 and does not describe the current state of admissions. I’m leaving it up because it may be of interest to some of you to know how application volume has fluctuated.
As expected, the economy is sending...

One of the most enjoyable parts of the annual pre-law advisors’ conference is hearing law school admissions officials share their craziest application stories—personal statements, follow-up emails and other applicant encounters that are so unimaginably outrageous that the panel is titled “You’re Not Going to Believe This.” The behavior...

New article up from preLaw magazine, a publication of the National Jurist. Good overview of the pluses and minuses of the various rankings systems, especially that of the infamous US News & World Report.
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That’s the title of a new article from University of Baltimore Law Professor Richard Bourne, detailing the long slow train wreck that the combination of the rising costs of legal education and the stagnant-to-receding market for legal jobs has engendered. Like any train wreck, it’s not a...

On Tuesday, February 2nd, the state Board of Higher Education will vote whether to approve the proposed public law school, taking over Southern New England School of Law in Dartmouth. Public hearings were held yesterday in Worcester, with most of those testifying supporting the proposal. The Boston Globe suggests that...

From the ABA Journal online:
[T]he number of law school applications nationally has risen by less than 1 percent from last year, despite the dismal state of the economy, [according to] communications director Wendy Margolis of the Law School Admission Council.
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WBUR recently interviewed Dean Robert Ward of UMass Dartmouth’s new law school, as well as Elie Mystal of the law-related blog Above the Law, who has been a vocal critic of the new law school. Click on the audio link to hear the entire interview—it’s worth it.

The primary purpose of law school is to train lawyers—that seems to make sense. But recent data indicate that a surprising number of law school graduates do not end up practicing law straight out of school. Prof. Brian Tamanaha, who writes frequently about legal education, portrays these...

Lauren Parry graduated from UMass Amherst in 2004 with a degree in History & Legal Studies. She is now a first year law student at Rutgers School of Law Camden in Camden, New Jersey in the part time evening program. She kicks off a new occasional series for the Pre-Law blog—...

If you’ve followed this blog, read even a little of my website, or just seen a few of the depressing articles I’ve linked to on Facebook, you know I’m not an uncritical booster of law school and legal careers in general. In fact, I’m pretty...